Detailed Course Outline
Introduction to PRINCE2
- Outlining the principles that guide obligations and good practices of PRINCE2
- Benefits of a structured project management approach
- Establishing the key elements of PRINCE2
- Tailoring PRINCE2 for projects of varying sizes
PRINCE2 Product Descriptions
- Baseline management products
- Defining the project
- Project Brief
- Benefits Review
- Project Initiation Documentation
- PlanWork Package
- Records of project progress
- Configuration Item Records
- Daily and Lessons Logs
- Issue, Quality and Risk Registers
- Status reports
- Event–driven reports
- Time–driven reports
Outlining the Themes within PRINCE2
- Establishing the business case
- Supporting continuous business justification
- Developing, verifying and maintaining the business case
- Confirming the benefits
- Developing the project management organisation
- Implementing defined roles and responsibilities
- Selecting the project management team
- Linking the three project interests to the four management levels
- Building quality into products
- Supporting the focus of products
- The PRINCE2 approach to quality and quality review
- Planning to deliver the product
- Managing by stages
- Differentiating between the three levels of planning
- Reviewing the planning process including product–based planning
- Managing risk
- Identifying, assessing and controlling uncertainty
- Assessing the impact of threats or opportunities
- Implementing responses to identified risks
- Defining change
- Applying the issue and change control procedures
- Managing the configuration of products
- Monitoring and controlling progress
- Management by exception
- Setting and tracking tolerances
- Reporting progress
Recognising the PRINCE2 Processes
- Starting up a project
- Appointing the project management team
- Assembling the Project Brief
- Planning the initiation stage
- Directing a project
- Authorising initiation, the project and a stage
- Giving ad hoc direction
- Authorising project closure
- Initiating a project
- Preparing the strategies
- Planning the project
- Refining the business case
- Assembling the Project Initiation Documentation (PID)
- Controlling a stage
- Delegating work packages
- Monitoring and reporting
- Dealing with issues
- Managing product delivery
- Accepting, executing and delivering a work package
- Creating a Checkpoint Report
- Managing a stage boundary
- Creating the next stage plan or exception plan
- Updating the business case and project plan
- Reporting stage end
- Closing a project
- Preparing for closure
- Handing over products
- Evaluating the project
Preparing for and Taking the Foundation Exam
- Applying proven tips for exam success
- Practising with test questions and mock papers
- Taking the exam
- Obtaining your Foundation exam results